Kilo8,
I think an argument can be made that the recommended doses of lithium orotate are likely to be safer than therapeutic doses of lithium carbonate because recommended doses of lithium orotate contain less elemental lithium than therapeutic doses of lithium carbonate. With lithium orotate products, the recommended dose seems to fall between 5 and 15 mg of elemental lithium. A 900-mg therapeutic dose of lithium carbonate, on the other hand, contains about 170 mg of elemental lithium. So, following that argument, recommended doses of lithium orotate might seem likely to be safer than therapeutic doses of lithium carbonate, but at the same time, lithium orotate might conceivably affect the body differently than lithium carbonate does. This would probably make it difficult for anyone to make any statements about the safety of lithium orotate that are 100-percent definitive.
I could be wrong, though, as my knowledge of chemistry is not very extensive.
Tomatheus
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